In a few decades, the relationship between the environment,resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious asthe connection we see today between human rights,democracy and peace.- Wangari Maathai

The government, which was designed for the people,has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers,the special interests.An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.- Woodrow Wilson

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes,our ancestors.It is the democracy of the dead.Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchywho merely happen to be walking around.- Gilbert K. Chesterton

137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America'smost cherished patriotic observances.The spirit of this day has not changed -it remains a day to honor those who died defendingour freedom and democracy.- Doc Hastings

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracythan to imprison a personor keep him in prison because he is unpopular.This is really the test of civilization.- Winston Churchill

The motive power of democracy is love.- Henri Bergson

Democracy derailed is democracy denied.- Chaka Fattah

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy,ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democraticprocess that we as a Country hold so dear.- Charles Rangel

We always hear about the rights of democracy,but the major responsibility of it is participation.- Wynton Marsalis

Democracy is the art of thinking independently together.- Alexander Meiklejohn

Running a school where the students all succeed,even if some students have to help others to make the grade,is good preparation for democracy.- William Glasser

The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy.The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.- C. L. R. James

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means ofcontaining and restraining violence.But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.- Edward Bond

Our constancy, same might call it our madness,was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which,in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times.- Frederica Montseny

Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy,which is our objective.- Paul Biya

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thingto be adjusted by abolition of forms.It requires change of heart.- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result,since Iraq lacks democratic traditions.Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.- Brent Scowcroft

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast betweenits ideals and its realities,between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.- Agnes Repplier

Everybody's for democracy in principle.It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.- Meg Greenfield

This is supposed to be a participatory democracy andif we're not in there participating then the peoplethat will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.- George Takei

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.- Bill Moyers

My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film,it's a pro-democracy film.And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy,that's his problem.- John Sayles

Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicianstreat them as a separate race.- Frank Field

Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan,a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China.- Nick Lampson

Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy.Deceit is a poison in its veins.- Edward Kennedy

Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.- Augusto Pinochet

Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy.We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that.- Susan George

It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand,indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right hassabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.- David Brock

We have had a long wait for democracy.- Chen Shui-bian

Democracy is also a form of worship.It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.- H. L. Mencken

Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical:there's no democracy without a market economy,but you can have a market economy without democracy.- Peter L. Berger